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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 2 – The Seven Churches
This church brings us down to the time

when the more immediate signs of the soon-

coming advent began to be fulfilled. In 1780,

eighteen years before the close of this period,

the predicted signs in the sun and moon were

fulfilled. (See chapter 6:12.) And in reference

to these signs the Saviour said: “And when

these things begin to come to pass, then look

up and lift up your heads; for your redemption

draweth nigh.” In the history of this church we

reach a point when the end is drawing so near

that the attention of the people could properly

be called more particularly to that event. All

along Christ has said to his followers, “Occupy

till I come.” Luke 19:13. Now he says, “Hold

fast till I come.”

Till the End. — The end of the Christian age.

“He that shall endure to the end,” says Christ,